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i IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDING MACHINES.

FRANK A. HILL, MA'RYSVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

` .team Para No. 60,189, .zaad member 4, 186e.

'TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. HILL, of Marysville, Yuba count-y, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed Sowers; andI do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are sufiicient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use my said `invention,.without furtherinvention or experiment.

The nature of my invention relatesto an improved device for `sowing cereals, and consists of an incline box or binmounted uponwheels, to which is attached bevelled gearing, connectedto stirrers or agitators placed in the bottom of the bin, which: causes the grain or seed V,to fall through the holes upon an angular` scatterboard, which spreads the seedevenlyV over` the iield. Referring to the drawings Figure 1 representsa side sectional elevation offmy machine.

Figure 2, a plan.

Figure 3 is an elevation, with a portion of the box or bin removed. i

A A, etc., are the driving-wheels, to veaclrifendofthe axles of which are attachedthe bevelled wheels,

B B, in which the bevelled Lipinions, C C, work?,- drivingthe agitators forward and back. The agitators, D D, are double sets of pins, one set'operating alternatelyin the other at right angles with the seed box, O, near the bottom, by means of connecting rods'E E, attached'to them and the bevel'led pinions. `Gr Gr are the valves .through which the seed falls, and may be opened or closediand regulated tothe size ofthe seed by th'e levers i F F, placed in the side of .the seed boxupon each side of the drivers seat. .L L, etc., are'discharge holes,VK

through which the seed falls on to the scatter-board, H. Y .Y

The operation of my machine is as follows: i The seed is put in the box, O, and when the sower is drawn` eitherway, onward or backward, the bevelled wheels, B B and C, 'will' connnunicate motion to the agitators, D

D, which, being in motion, will prevent the holesL, from filling up and clogging, and thereby the seedwill fall with greater facility on the scatter-board, H. The peculiar shape of the scatter-board will spread the seed with great regularity, and a field can be seeded with great evenness and ease, 'as any person who can drive a team. can manage my soweit, and seed more acres with grain, .than by any other machine now in use, in the same space of time. i

Having thus described my improved seed sewer, what-I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The agitators D D, in vcombination with lthe-.bevelled gearing BV andC, and connecting rods E E, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth. i

In witness whereof I have hereunto setmy hand and seal.

FRANK A, HILL. fr.. 5.1

Witnesses:

E. I. PALMER, QHAs.,M. Gomma. 

